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TITLE: A republican beau - a picture of Paris for 1794 / I. Cruikshank del.
CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 8435 (A size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-05418 (digital file from original print)LC-USZC2-3598 (color film copy slide)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Print shows a man, a sansculotte, in ragged red, white, and blue stripe clothing, he holds a spiked club in one hand, wears pistols in his belt on which is written "War Eternal War" and he has a dead infant stuffed into a pocket. In the near background is a guillotine replacing the crucifix, which lies on the ground, on an altar labeled "This is our God" and in the distance several bodies hang from a gibbet.
MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: London : Pub. by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly, who has fitted up his Caracature Exhibition in an Entire novel stile admit 1s, folios lent out, 1794 March 10.
CREATOR:
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, artist.
NOTES:
Title from item.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8435
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
SUBJECTS:
France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794. Sansculottes--1790-1800.
FORMAT:
Satires (Visual works) British 1790-1800.Etchings Hand-colored 1790-1800.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original print) ppmsca 05418 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.05418 (digital file from color film copy slide) cph 3b51551 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b51551
CONTROL #: 2004669790